Wordle Bulletin #632 (March 13, 2023) — “Even Tiger Woods occasionally makes errant shots!”

By Ashok Gupta
on Mar 13, 2023
in Daily Bulletins, Eliminate-Not-Enumerate, Seed word, Strategy

Today’s Wordle: A pathetic performance today.
Target Word: BLAME
# Of Guesses: 4.2 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 5 for WordleGuru ☹☹☹☹☹

Typical or atypical target word? — Typical, it contains only 2 vowels (A, E) and one compound consonant (BL). The “norm” is 2 vowels and 1 compound/paired consonant.

Seed Word: STARE – The “go-to” seed word starting March 8, 2023.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed 2 vowels – A and E in 3^rd and 5^th positions respectively. Too many possibilities at this stage. Need more discovery.

2nd word: CHOIL (2^nd word of the triad STARE/CHOIL/PUDGY): It revealed L but not its position. 10+ possibilities (not all common words) at this point including 3 sets of orthographic neighbor words (ouch!) – [BLAME, BLAZE, BLADE], [GLAZE, GLADE], [FLAKE, FLAME], LEAVE, PLAIN, QUAIL, and DWALE. Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.

3^rd word: FLUNG – could not come up with one word that would eliminate all but 1 possibilities. The 3 sets of orthographic neighbor words were the major impediment. Prepared to do 2 rounds of EnotE ©

I chose FLUNG for the first round. It eliminated all but three (orthographic neighbor words) – BLAME, BLAZE, and BLADE.

4^th word: AMAZE – it did the job and led to BLAME as the answer.

Final Thoughts: Today’s Wordle proved to be very difficult for me. It may have been due to the seed word or a combination of the seed word & 2nd word. I have found that the discovery of A and E by my seed word makes my life difficult!

Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was not on my side.

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*The WordleBot score I refer to comes from Tom’s Guide by Marc McLaren. Marc writes his post at around 7 AM U.K. time.
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